ANNUAL REPORT - Department of Biotechnology

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOLOGY, NEW DELHI
A. ORIGINAL PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES
1. Appaiahgari MB, Saini M, Rauthan M, Jyoti, Vrati S (2006) Immunization with recombinant adenovirus
synthesizing the secretory form of Japanese encephalitis virus envelope protein protects adenovirusexposed
mice against lethal encephalitis. Microbes and Infection 8: 92-104.
2. Arora P, Vats A, Saxena P, Mohanty D and Gokhale RS (2005) Promiscuous fatty acyl-CoA ligases
produce acyl-CoA and acyl-SNAC precursors for polyketide biosynthesis. J Am Chem Soc 127:9388-
9389.
3. Bharati K, Appaiahgari MB and Vrati S (2005) Effect of cytokine-encoding plasmid delivery on immune
response to Japanese encephalitis virus DNA vaccine in mice. Microbiology and Immunology 49: 349-
353.
4. Chakravarty S, Suraj K and Gupta SK (2005) Baculovirus expressed recombinant human zona pellucida
glycoprotein-B induces acrosomal exocytosis in capacitated spermatozoa in addition to zona pellucida
glycoprotein-C. Mol Human Reprod 11: 365-372.
5. Chaudhry A, Das SR, Hussain A, Mayor S, George A, Bal V, Jameel S and Rath S. (2005) The Nef protein
of HIV-1 induces loss of cell surface costimulatory molecules CD80 and CD86 in APCs. J Immunol
175:4566-4574.
6. Devi YS, Sarda K, Stephen B, Nagarajan P, and Majumdar SS (2006) Follicale-stimulating hormoneindependent
functions of primate sertoli cells: potential implications in the diagnosis and management of
male infertility. J Clin Endocrinol Metabol 91:10621068
7. Furdui C, Sau AK, Yaniv O, Belakhov V, Woodard RW, Baasov T and Anderson KS (2005) The use of (e)-
and (z)-phosphoenol-3-fluoropyruvate as mechanistic probes reveals significant differences between
the active sites of kdo8p and dahp synthases. Biochemistry 44: 7326-7335.
8. Gahlay GK, Batra D and Gupta SK (2005) Baculovirus expressed C-terminal fragment of bonnet monkey
(Macaca radiata) zona pellucida glycoprotein-3 inhibits ZP3 mediated induction of acrosomal
exocytosis. Mol Reprod Dev 71: 237-244.
9. Gaur D and Batra JK (2005) Role of aspartic acid 121 in human pancreatic ribonuclease catalysis. Mol
Cell Biochem 275:95-101.
10. Goel M, DamaiRS, Sethi DK, Kaur KJ, Maiya BG, Swamy MJ and Salunke DM (2005) Crystal structures
of PNA-porphyrin complex in the presence and absence of lactose: mapping the conformational
changes on lactose binding, interacting surfaces and supramolecular aggregations. Biochemistry
44:5588-5596.
11. Goswami R, Gupta N, Ray D, Rani R, Tomar N, Sarin R and Vupputuri MR (2005) Polymorphism of the of
the cytotoxic T lymphocyte antigen-4 (CTLA-4) gene and autoimmune regulator (AIRE) gene mutation:
association analysis in sporadic idiopathic hypoparathyroidism. Int J Immunogenetics 32:393-400.
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PUBLICATIONS / PATENTS OF DEPARTMENT'S AUTONOMOUS
INSTITUTES (2006-07)
DBT Annual Report 2006-07